NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3915, 10 September 1875, Page 2

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

London Journal and Family Herald for July The Youny LiuMis Journal aud How Ihlh for August. ,TT rJruithwaite, agent, corner of High and Fleet streets, Duuedin. The « London Journal' has one or two rather interesting papers on " The Arctic Expedition," " Leicester Square in the Last Century," " The First Lady in. France," and many other subjeots. A new tale by Clementine Montagu, called "A Daughter of Fortune," is commenced this month. The ladies' supplement has firstrate fashions, and a traced pattern of a new Btyle of corsage, "Marguerite," which is certainly novel though not elegant, and would only be suitable for persons of very slight figure. In the 'Family Herald,' '''Redeemed by Love" is very satisfactorily finished—everyone has his deserts, gooi or bad, and those people who are m the way die at the proper time, leaving all things just as they should be. " The Squire's Legacy ' is continued, and the first few chapters of a new story entitled " Sibyl" are given this month. The short stories and essays on different subjects are quite up to the ÜBual standard, and are amusim? and instructive in their own style. 1 he stories begun in former numbers of' Bow Bells' are carried on, and a new one is issued with this number, calltd " Trial and Triumph." It appears to be fairly interesting. The patterns for fancy aud needle work are very pretty. The supplement, wlvich is set apart for this alone, is first-rate, especially Nos. 1 2, and 3 for embroidery. An easy arrangement of that exceedingly pretty old Irish song " Kate Kearney " is given this month. The readers of the ' Young Ladies' Journal' will, we are sure, be highly pleased with the August number. It certainly contains » great

amount of re&ding.fltttef latb* Wiyof *&*, m cipcs, and dirpctidnsfor all kinds of fancy needlework, dressmaking and millinery. The " monster supplement" contain* such numerous and varied Btyles of patterns for dresses. mantles, bonnets, hats, and fichus, that it is qui.e impossible for us to nention any m being more than ordinarily handsome or elegant. The traced patternß are for a little girl's dress, and a sailor suit tor a boy. We have no doubt they will be most acceptable to those ladies who make their children's garments at home. The designs for wall pockets, promised in the last number of this magazine, are given this month; they are vory beautifully and carefully finished. We call the attention of those ladies who are doing any baztar work to these designs, as they only require mounting and binding, and would look very gay and pretty on a stall.